Illmatic changed hip-hop forever, and it started with Nas’ striking cover art, which captured his journey to the album’s arrival perfectly. Nas superimposed a child version of himself on top of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the bygone era of the 1990s, when physical LPs lined record store shelves like colorful beacons of musical promise, collecting ...

Sure, other photogs got their time to make art with the world’s great spitters, but Danny was, more often than not, there at the genesis. “I got something that nobody else has,” he shares. “I got ...

In his 2004 Pitchfork review, Nick Sylvester wrote that MM..FOOD was “an attempt to make good on Doom’s almost fascist conceit to restore rap’s golden age despite its loss of innocence.” The record’s ...

The album sounds like a homecoming release of sorts, an artist recognizing her roots, having recently conquered the world with No. 1 singles and albums. While she’s very much a peak performer in the ...

Jonathan Mannion's work as a photographer and filmmaker speaks for itself. Over the course of two decades, he's shot some of the most legendary album covers in rap history. Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt, ...

There’s no mistaking an album cover designed by Pen & Pixel Graphics. Diamonds, fire, expensive cars, and women all accented by blinged out fonts are just some of the elements that have become the ...

Hennessy is excited to introduce Jonathan Mannion, projecting him as a perfect representation of the Hip Hop genre. For superstars like Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Lauryn Hill, Rick Ross, Eminem, Snoop Dog and ...

From the album cover to the soundscapes, J. Cole’s new LP is pretty much a safe haven for anyone who thinks hip-hop died a quarter century ago. Sure, that’s usually the case for a J. Cole album, but ...

AllHipHop has put together a list of the best HIp-Hop album covers ever created! The first time the world got to meet the chief representative of the Park Side Killer Schoolly D was with the dropping ...

AllHipHop has put together a list of the best HIp-Hop album covers ever created! Supa Dupa Fly as an album cover was a stunt on the industry like no woman had ever done. No… the artistic direction ...